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Cafe Dekcuf on April 13, 2011 I decided to do my very first Skype interview with Rich Aucoin . Hopefully I will try to do more on this medium. He couldn't be anymore nice to do this interview despite the technical difficulties & myself being a nervous wreck. In the interview I asked: His trip in France Tour with K-os Music video for Brian Wilson is ALIVE winning the Inaugural [...]

Paul Allender, lead guitarist for British heavy metal act Cradle of Filth, has announced via his Facebook page the start of one on one online guitar lessons over Skype. Fans can write to Allender at paul@winterlandstudios.com for further details. "After being a professional player for almost 20 years, I decided I wanted to start teaching guitar ... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

I'm trying hard to be better, but it's just so... hard . As much as I complain about modern society's over-reliance on newfangled 21st-century communication -- text messages, emails, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc. -- and the way it's stunted our capacity to have meaningful in-depth conversations, it's actually the perfect set-up for a writer like me. Though I still haven't mastered the art of typing on my iPod Touch keypad (damn that predictive text!), I can rock an email on my netbook. Go ahead, send me one. Chances are I'll respond ASAP (to use 21st-century [...]

Back when I was a kid, if I had so much as a minor case of the sniffles, my dad would be all over me. He'd ply me with sweet treats and TLC, the slightly rough brand that only a father could give. I appreciated his concern while generally refusing the treats (a miracle, yes, but strep throat, my most common childhood ailment after the splitting headache, didn't exactly expand my appetite). In fact, one of my most memorable father-son moments also was the last time I can remember ever being sick around him. I had some [...]

Would you like to win a private Skype session with Rita Ora? Well of course you would and here's how. In celebration of her recently released debut album, Ora is offering up the chance of a private Skype session for just two lucky winners. (via Complex.com) To enter simply visit: www.superglued.com/RitaOra In the meantime, you can read what happened when we caught up with the British superstar to find out what makes her tick in Artist Picks here .

I've heard the stories. The ones about illegal bribes and lucrative back-room deals. When in Buenos Aires, it wasn't just the criminals that you had to look out for, but the cops, too. Crooked ones, the sort that would feature prominently in the occasional episode of Law & Order but were crawling all over the BAPD. For them, crime pays indeed. Call it naivete or just plain old cluelessness, but I was never 100 percent certain about the veracity of the claims. Now I know that sometimes you should believe everything you hear. [...]

Will.i.am brings his act to Londontown in his video for "This Is Love" , the Steven Angello-produced single off his forthcoming solo album,  #willpower . The Black Eyed Pea starts things off slowly, playing a will.i.am-branded piano in front of the city's Tower Bridge. Eventually, clubgoers pop up via will's laptop (do they have Skype in nightclubs now?) and Dutch singer-songwriter Eva Simons , rocking the most intense, gravity-defying mohawk we've ever seen, provides some fierceness on the hook. Though the video starts off promising with an interesting outdoor locale, Will.i.am's [...]

"hola jeremy soy maxi encargago en tu edificio llama a la persona que alquila tu departamento por que robaron en tu departamento hoy a las 17 hs" Uh oh, here we go again again ! Another robbery in Buenos Aires, and more breaking bad news on Facebook. If you didn't hear it first, chances are you heard it first on Facebook, or Twitter, both of which do a better job of getting stories out there fast than the network news programs or any major-city daily newspaper these days. They're where the [...]

Of the huge range of plastic surgeries available to the paying customer, from eye-lifts, to calf implants, to butt lifts, apparently chin implants are the fastest-growing cosmetic surgery in the U.S. The Wall Street Journal reports the American Society of Plastic Surgeons says the number of mentoplasty surgeries rose 71% last year, and that the number of implants is split equally between men and women. If you're wondering "why?" as I'm sure you are (I mean, how riveting is plastic surgery news from WSJ?) Malcolm Z. Roth, ASPS’s president, proposes the growth of video-chat [...]

We are pretty stoked about this contest. For the past few months, Denison Witmer has been doing personal online performances via Skype for his fans to have the ability to perform without having to go on the road. Denison explains why the idea came about: My wife and I are expecting our first child this December We can't wait! Part of getting to know him/her means that I won't be touring anymore this fall or early spring. However, I still want to stay active with [...]

Yesterday I got the ping I'd been waiting nearly two years for. It came via Skype, from someone I'll refer to simply as G -- and not because he's even remotely gangsta. G is for gorgeous: tall (at least half a head over me, and I'm 6'1"), dark, handsome and possibly the best kisser I met in my entire four and a half years living in Buenos Aires. We never went out on an actual date, never made awkward conversation after bumping into each other on Avenida Santa Fe, or after waking up together on Saturday or [...]

Yesterday I got the ping I'd been waiting nearly two years for. It came via Skype, from someone I'll refer to simply as G -- and not because he's even remotely gangsta. G is for gorgeous: He's tall (at least half a head over me, and I'm 6'1"), dark, handsome and possibly the best kisser I met in my entire four and a half years living in Buenos Aires. We never went out on an actual date, never made awkward conversation after bumping into each other on Avenida Santa Fe, or after waking up together on Saturday [...]

Il Nono numero di Corpo a Cuore , conversazioni connettive con i protagonisti della musica (e presto del cinema) nazionale e internazionale abbandona per un attimo la forma Podcast e sfrutta in via per ora sperimentale la video conferenza skype come mezzo per un dialogo diretto. Lo spirito è il solito: utilizzare i mezzi connettivi della rete per spezzare i confini della recensione e dell'intervista di impostazione tradizionale, favorendo il racconto intorno ad un'esperienza. Protagonista di questo numero di "corpo a cuore", visibile direttamente dal canale Youtube di indie-eye.it, è Fabrizio Cammarata , intervistato in video [...]

My life has been pretty uneventful since my near-sexual assault at the massage parlor on Thursday. I've been keeping one bespectacled eye on the news, looking for updates on the flood that may or may not engulf inner Bangkok this weekend and keeping the other one on the window for any sign of water rushing in. So far so good -- though, unfortunately, not for the hundreds who have lost their lives and the thousands more their homes and livelihoods to what last night I heard called the worst flooding to hit Thailand in a century. Previously, [...]

This morning I woke up and made a horrible, shocking discovery. I'd slept right through the Emmy Awards ! That amazing scene pictured above (how great does Martha Plimpton look?): I totally missed it! How could that happen? First I miss the Oscars for the first time since 1976 (which happened last year when I was in London as naked gold men were being handed out to Sandra Bullock, Jeff Bridges and Mo'Nique), and now this. At least I got to watch the AFI Life Achievement Award tribute to Morgan Freeman on TV before going out [...]

This morning I woke up and made a horrible, shocking discovery. I'd slept right through the Emmy Awards ! That amazing scene pictured above (how great does Martha Plimpton look?): I totally missed it! How could that happen? First I miss the Oscars for the first time since 1976 (which happened last year when I was in London as naked gold men were being handed out to Sandra Bullock, Jeff Bridges and Mo'Nique), and now this. At least I got to watch the AFI Life Achievement Award tribute to Morgan Freeman before going out last night, [...]

This year’s Istancool Festival opened with an exhibition entitled ‘ Being With You’, a series of paintings by Sandro Kopp , painted over Skype, featuring volunteers who sat for the artist. The results are honest, introspective portraits that capture the digital means of creation in a rather subtle way. At first the work seems simply stylized, however beneath is a rather expertly crafted representation of the limitations of the digital form. The paintings have a way of filling in the blanks in a way that pixels demand, while portraying the subjects like a snap shot. In [...]

The web is abuzz tonight about a possible Microsoft purchase of Skype. The reports place the offer in the $7-8 billion dollar range. Clearly, this is a bold move by Microsoft to maintain a slot in the top tier of tech company brands along side Google, Facebook and Apple, who have been hogging the spotlight of late.Putting aside the valuation, Skype is a smart play for Microsoft. First, the

We talked to Andrew W.K. about Black Swan and Back To The Future. Naturally we moved onto topics like quantum theory and the black part of his party wardrobe.

MTV's Jim Cantiello was on a Skype video chat with Kris Allen when a special visitor popped onto his screen — Matthew Morrison! Kris had apparently snuck into Matt's trailer in Los Angeles, and the two singers, who had just collaborated in a song for Morrison's debut album , finally got to meet one another. See the two guys discuss "Still Got Tonight" below. Similar to the situation with "Airplanes" where Hayley Williams and B.o.B had never even met despite being featured on [...]